...aaaah the wind in my hair

• a big day of errands and exercise
  oh and as you all know the lad and i have only been officially going out for a couple of months or so.. but it was actually a year ago today that we first ummm hooked up ...lol lolled around in bed for a while-trying not to gloat when someone had to leave for work ;)
  then i got up and went for a 60 minute water run. gee the complex at werribee was fantastic..there is a whole 25 m section that is all 1.8m dep-FANTASTIC and i had the lane all to myself..what a delight..well as much a delight as w.running can be since its more boring than doing tax
  ..then went to the dentist who has put in a filling and built up my front tooth which had become chipped recently... and this was with one appointment... my last dentist kept making me have appt to discuss what we were going to do and never got round to doing much and some of those discussions were about $100 and NONE of the options were below $1000 in fact all the way up to $12000,,anyway we will wait and see if the filling holds. he did quite a good job.and i deliberately went to hoppers crossing dentist(super friendly) because im sure going to dentists in kew/balwyn automaticallly UPS the price...and well it would seem that is the case..so happy today with the work..still need to buy a night mouth guard..mmmm attractive because im a GRINDER ,then off to the post office to send some delightful tops to my angel nieces, then home for a quick nap, then have to go and do the stupid weights session that my not nice coach set... i dont think he took into account i was TIRED after a 60min run...anway we had some words about it..where he basically told me i was hopeless(well maybe he didnt quite say that but thats how i took it!!)
  ..so when i started my 10min bike warm up..im going aaah this is nice..teh wind in my hair...aaaah ...errr....ummmm the wind in my hair???? Doh!!!! miss scatterbrain had forgotten to wear her helmet..oopsies
  
  anyway lucky hes two diff people to me..cos i dont like my coach much right now :) but my bf is still nice :)
  
• 10 min bike ride to warm the body up
• 15/12/10 lunges & squats with small hand weights for both, no break between L & S and 30 sec break between sets
• 15/12/10 upright rowing & military press, use bar with no weight. No break between exercise (except to move hands on bar), 30 sec rest between set
• Leg strength, 10 sec hold of the T pose on each leg & single leg squats (12/10/8). Three sets with minimal break between exercise, 30 sec between sets
• 15/12/10 Push ups (modified if required) & table top crunch (arms crossed on chest). No break between exercise (except to move positions), 30 sec rest between set 2 x 60 sec front planks
• Side leg raises, 15 each side and then 10 each side, no break

a great weekend at bendigo

..yes i had a very fun weekend, throw in a bit of running and life is good
..oh and being on holidays doesnt hurt either :) :)

racing:
saw em(well she nearly ran me over actually in her truck...lol.. i know i know em- i was talking on my phone and not paying attention) so then i hung out with her for a while and then it was time to start the ferrying
...coburgs organisation of this was hmmmmmmm... seriously... anyway i wont say too much on the matter-but it was quite frustrating
anyway my race- i took off fast after being given the sash in the completely last place of every team competing in ANY division... and then the downhill JUST about killed my back (am very very sore today) anyway was running mainly at 4:40min/km but then i hit a really really big hill and knowing we were last no matter what- i confess i WALKED most of the hill..so my time ended up being an average of 5min/kms. and then one of the boys(who is about 20 SANDWICHES short of a picnic forgot where he said he was meeting the person picking up so i hate to wait for half an hour with him...anyway there was more to it..but grrrrrrr.. people making other plans and not actually telling anyone when they changed it ...lol

then back to the hotel, went for a swim in the heated pool-then dinner at the bistro of our hotel. it was soooo funny, one of the guys wife was an absolute cracker- we had a great giggle and then she shortsheeted the guys sheets...lol... and they didnt even notice- it was just too funny when i was asking brian how he slept.... anyway drank an absolute BUCKETLOAD of wine/champers etc..woke up a bit disoriented in the middle of the night trying to work out where i was and who i was in bed with.... lol- it was di ..stu was staying with the wes aths group... too busy to talk with teh likes of me...heehee just kidding... anyway it was soooo funny... rohan was asking if stu was my coach and after i ummed and aaahed for a bit- i then said he was also my bf..... and hes going on about what a great guy stu is (well sometimes he's alright i suppose ;) pmsl anyway he then goes- youve done really well there...... and ive gone....nah- dont you mean stu has done really well to get me...and then i just about fell off my chair i was laughing so hard

70min run this morning...super slow over 6min/kms..back is not great- ill be in the water tomorrow- thats for sure- and then a bbq with bacon and egg muffin for brekky
then driving home-i musta rung stu ONE MILLION times(lol) cos i decided to go the sneaky squirrel way but didnt quite know the way
then we just ambled around werribee and then i had a teensy nap-- miss jojo is very tuckered out
guess who is sleeping in tomorrow

..jojo claps her hands in delights

in 7 hours i will be on holidays...woohoo
..although it mey well be a difficult 7 hours....im a wee bit tired..staff drinks last night

$18 last nigth -free drinks til about 11 and finger food.... yes it was a goodnight
-made up with my gf who id had a little tiff with 2 weeks ago
-probs shouldnt have slapped a guy 3 times...oopsies.... lol..its not as bad as it sounds..i was trying to make him feel better about something hed said last time to me and it had been upsetting him..... yeah ok it doesnt sound great when i write it down...

lots of laughs..... too many drinks...poor stu-i dont know how he puts up with me sometimes- got a very silly sausage text :(

and the stupid cab driver..went to the city instead of balwyn...from richmond, completely the wrong way.....derrrrrrr and i said im not paying that fee... he begged me to pay half so i said ok...and then we went back the other way, he gets a call from his wife and then we had to pick her up too... i wasnt very happy... woke up in my clothes...always a good sign i was drunk-if i dont get into my way more comfortable pjs...ooopsies

anyway better go do some work.. dont feel fabulous, but i dont feel too bad...more tired than anything..ciao ciao

bdays and chocolate pizza

yes you did hear right....
i went out last night and my sister in law just about had coniptions, she was sooooo excited about having chocolate pizza(i had a tiny taste...and felt sick it was soooooo sweet)yuk but they all loved it
..stu was a good boy and dutifully came along :) oh before i finish, choc pizza base is not really pizza base, it is like a pastry-terribly decadent

its quite funny, dessert really is a womans domain i reckon, i was the only girl who didnt have dessert and all bar one guy didnt have dessert.... it seems a regular occurrence when i go out that the numbers are like that

anyway, yesterday(i think i was just over tired after all the reports etc) i was feeling a bit unwell and really didnt feel like doing 6x1km reps at 4:35m/km pace.. i felt sick the entire time i was running, but no reprieve for me..i managed it..thought i was going to hurl a few times(probs shouldnt have eaten in the car on the way over)...but if anyone saw the looks i fired at stu if he even talked to me, one would not have thought he is a person who i do actually like....lol

anyway nice night out for my bro's bday- quite a few laughs- he is a funny lad and does crack me up...... must run in the family... anyway gotta go get back to work

splish splash..and i wasnt taking no bath

..and yes... i know..it is DELIBERATELY bad grammar...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the splish splash refers to me going for a swim...yes sinker of the sinkers went for a swim... not a water run,.... but a swim... and of course there was a man there who spoke to me..hes like ..oooh youre not water running today...yeah baby i look hot at the pool.....ummmmmmmmmmmm NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT... anyway he headbutted me last week when i was water running(backstroke for him) and hten he was asking me bzillions of questions about water running... i love how people just chat to me evrywhere i go...lol... im sure it has nothing to do with how much i talk.... lol...sigh ahhhh how much i crack myself up... i keep telling my lovely bf how funny i am.... yet he wont have a bar of it!!!!
anyway swam 10 laps of 50m and then got the flock out of htere(that reminds me of ajoke..what did the shepherd say to his mate, cmon lets get the flock outa here).. it was furrrreeeeeezing in an outdoor pool... still all sniffly... and jojo what do you take when you go swimming... go on guess(i took bathers..they didnt match but it doesnt matter ;) ) errr take my word for it, it really isnt much fun without a towl(and my purse was in my car so i couldnt even buy one!!!!!!!!!!BUGGER BALLS!!!) yeah makes it even colder..and drying oneself under the hand drier(umm im sure when i was younger they wer heaps warmer)
...what a drama queen i am.... i cant just have a normal nothing happens kinda day can !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! far out brussel sprout
anyway kicking back with the lad(well just had to do the final touches/corrections to reports) tired leggies today..dont ask about the back..im playing the ostrich game... and stu convinced me to take my anti-inflamms for it////// oh yeah also.....vit D, glucosamine,(and echinacea for my cold)... i suck...so it is actually very helpful having such a bossy britches around who wont put up with 'it's all the way out in the car'...lol cos i REALLY dont like taking medication crap of any kind...im sure people existed many years ago without it...surely i should be able to too!!!!!!!

thats rubbish that is

i was trying to get my coach to give me a predicted time yesterdy but he was very close-lipped on the matter(except of course when it came to telling me how inconsistent my training is!!!!!!... well derr fred...i have a pretty significant back injury that sometimes even i cannot bear the pain of running on it..and this weeek 3 days where i could not bend, was one of those... i actually think i do a pretty good job of kms really... a few people have seen me with some pretty significant taping in order to run at times..
anyway he eventually said(just to annoy!!!!!!) me around 25 mins... i think i shrieked at this stage..whaddya mean 25 mins... if i dont run under 25 mins , then im quitting running

well i ran 28 mins...AND IM NOT quitting running... cos there is a story that goes with it..
the run
..didnt have my garmin charged which was a bummer, oh well im sure there will be km markers..obviously im blind and can see the first two.... anyway said to some girl, what are you aiming at 25 mins you> i replied 23mins somethiing but would accept 24mins dead
anyway took off..shes right next to me for a bit and i couldnt judge my pace so im wondering if ive gone too slow...eventually found a pace that was uncomfortable(as it should be in a race) but not too bad...was sucking in serioius air on the clockwise ascent up anderson st, then enjoyed the downhill section... said to some guys-you see any km markers..yeah were at 2.5kms already... oh ok... hit the 3kms in 14:10 i think so i was happy with this as i would sub 24 if i maintained.. i actually started to push a bit(but there were a couple fo rises and hit the 4km marker in some tunnel bridge at 19mins.... again happy 23:40ish it looks like..speed up again.... and running and it is now 23 mins and the end is nowhere in sight(and ive sped up if anything) and looking at 25 tick over...and im going this is just not right... mentioned something to someone else and they just looked bewildered..we are only half a km away..half a km!!!!! i dont run 9min kms but thats what im looking at for this last supposed km... anyway was feeling a bit disgruntled and finished in 28mins flat but KNOWING that it had to be long... i was trying to find someone with a garmin to ask but none anyway.... was not happy jan... anyway the girl id been talking to at the start came and found me..and ive gone... how long was that last km..something wrong there..and she goes hang on... i was just behind you(i was keeping you in my sights..thanks for pacing me) and we ran 6kms... she was then trying to explain to me where she thinks the officials gave us a bum steer and didnt make us do a hard left...i think most of the 5kmer may have..but i must have got lost in the sea of 10kms...anyway i was a bit grumpy but at the end of the day i ran 4:40min kms which is 23:20 for the 5km...but and yes my VANITY is prevailing...anyone who checks my time will think ive run 28mins for 5kms..i dont want that time against my name!!!!!!!!!! grrrrrrr

anyway had done 2kms to warm up plus run throughs so had run over 40mins.. probs 42 mins.. then went for a run after ..very slow and there was some run walk moments..more in the first 10mins when my legs were rebelling.. and my knee was very sore for the last ummmmm 30minutes.... so all up ran for around 82mins...hard to say distance somewhere in the 15km range?
my back is ....................well, my back is terrible actually..i cant bend and it hurts a lot to get in and out of the car... im doing the swing both legs out ,place both feet on the ground, push on the seat and then stand up...and wince while you try to start walking again(dont worry its been like this all week-was slightly better this morning and i heavily taped it to run)
(cant have one legs sideways and get out of the car like i usually do)i think i will have to strap it even for normal activities like walking and ummm eating(lol)for the next few days :( i really have to book in for that MRI and injection(painful apparently) deep into the back ....double
:( anyway it recovers better than it used to so..it has 2 full days between now and next training session.. sorry about whinging about my back... i generally dont write much about it these days... its been over a year now.... and im a bit over the amount of pain that i get on a REGULAR basis.... but as my sports doc said...a year is not a long time in the recovery of a back from an injury such as mine ..at least i have full functionality back in my foot :) cant say that about this time last year :) thats better jojo (drop foot wasnt fun... i felt like a monster dragging their foot along the ground)..and i couldnt sit on a couch this time last year, and i was in pain all day every day.... i have a few consecutive days without pain sometimes now.....so i really should just count my blessings

...thank gosh thats over

yesterday was an absolutely horrible day...uuuugggghghghghghghgh
thank goodness its done..and i went to the stupid meeting but took my computer to do my reports..and when they went to give me a calculator..i said dont bother i have to do my reports... grrrrrr i was very annoyed.... i literally finished with 5 minutes to spare... and i was there from 7:30 and had been writing reports til about 11 the night before etc etc...
anyway its all done...

was suposed to go for a run but couldnt..back was seriously bad again yesterday....... couldnt evn have considered running...leaning over a computer for as many hours as i did this week is an absolute killer
...stu is telling me at the moment what a sweetheart he is ...but really today he is being very annoying(deliberately)...and yes stu i did just call your bluff and write it!!!

no run today as im racing tomorrow and another day for the back wont hurt..it is heaps and heaps better than yestedrday... just been finding out what my excercise regime is for my holidays ...yikes
..but depressed today for a number of reasons...although i did get to speak with my sister last night which was nice...i think im just abit over tired at the moment..
i should be feeling ecstatic after finiihsing hte erports..but in truth just feel extremely drained... yeah depressed isnt the right word... over tired like a little baby

..just got back from brekky at willi where i couldnt decide btw eggs and a pancake ..ummm so i had both.. light lunch for me then i guess

looking forward to run melb.... although i either have to do an extra 8kms afterwards or jump in the pool for an hour

6 days till holidays and counting

at 4pm..it will be normal jojo

come tomorrow at 4pm..once all this rubbish is finished(am going to be under hte pump to get it all done..i will become normal jojo again
..i will be very very happy when it is all back to normal...this stress is driving me insane...quite literally i think... and i have a very attractive cold sore to keep me company tonight.. its big enough that i will be able to give it a cuddle tonight...lol

..anyway... was supposed to be training tonight, but my back became worse and worsa as the day progressed... i could barely get out of the car when i got home...then i had a nap- nup the back no better..so i made an executive decision(sorry stu) and decided not to run... there wasjust no way i could have run today.. i should have known that after boxercise(since it hurt it while i did it) it wouldnt be great...wasnt expecting it to be as bad as this... i shouldv gone for a water run but it was raining and i welll really i just suck :( :( but i also kinda cracked the sads about my back..and i kinda have to write reports ...and well did i mention i suck :(

oh and got a stupid parking fine a while ago(which i was sure i paid..but cant find the receipt..so now rent a bomb have charged me 35 admin fee and then some agency charged me 19 so altogether a 55 fine is costing me stupid 110... plthththththt

..anyway..im gonna go sulk while i write reports...better do a good kids or god knows what i will write...lol
i will be catching up on blog reading tomorrow night

hey andrew..what have you decided to do at run melbourne... i got my number

..quickie before hwk

.itll hafta be a quickie..cos i gotta get back to work(yes hwk..im sure if i looked, i would see it coming out of my ears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

...anyway work was ok.... except one of the older colleagues(who is a real SPACE invader..takes all my personal space) who was trying to organise a meeting for friday morning..that is report writing day...and hes gone well its only going to take 5mins like today(ummm dufus its been 35 minutes...) and he doesnt have atutor group to read and write..each student is about 3-4 paragraphs!!!!!and i have 27 to write by end of day friday... so i was like im really under the pump doing reports...i cant make it..he wasnt happy but he will just have to suck it up...that day is specifically NOT supposed to be for meetings....grrrrrrrrrr

..so after work training with my cross country boys... we organises a cross training..which was half spinning half boxercise type thing(20-25 mins of each) i discounted the boxing(even though i found it treally tough..shouldnt have done it cos it hurt my back) so 25 mins HARD spinning(fartlek style) and then 35 minute water run....
..cooked trout with lotsa vegies for dinner.... yum
..going to actually train with my club(and do their session tomorrow night..yay)
.anyway...back to work miss jo... if stu gets back and im not working...ill be in trouble....lol...im kidding..but he does get bossy and tell me i should be working(its actually quite helpful really..he is a lovely lad ..i think ill keep him around for a while ;-)

..finally a reasonable session

ok lets break this up into three topics
1. (and most importantly)running
a session at the track with SM... and he warned me it was a tough one... 4x1km+2x800m @110s lap pace which is 4:35 pace(doesnt sound that hard i guess but trust me it isnt exactly easy) which is also a jump up in distance... was feeling a bit faint before hand but didnt want to tell stu cos he thinks i just whinge all the time... anyway what with reports and stuff didnt feel like ..
,..pfaffing around so he organised everyone nice and early.... was about 5s quick(for the 1km) for most of them..still trying to hit the pacing thing
...anyway today was the first day i) i have actually enjoyed the whole run since the knee accident..i think sometimes people forget HOW much it hurts when you are unfit...particularly when doing speed work... anyway didn't feel like the most unfit OOMPA LOOMPA on the planet... so its start..not back yet...but felt like i was on the way

school: computer got returned today... they never asked if anything happened(re not switching on) so i didnt mention..if they asked i woulda said!!!!! i cannot lie.. still reading a million pages of reports to proofread(tutor reports to be done still) after friday i am gonna be one happpy happy gal

personal: stu and had our tues 'date night' .. he always laughs when i call it this ..but it is kinda nice/// and i am trying to make my RATIONAL self talk my IRRATIONAL self out of thinking irrational thoughts at the moment.. i am a smart gal and i know better!!!!! anyway feeling a little insecure at the moment and it is all caused by EXTRANEOUS things that are purely in my head.... :(

anyway ... 3 more days and life is good :) CANT f%^ING WAIT!!!!!!!!

snore city...booooooooooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiing

so f7cking sick of reports...please be finished..... i feel terrible about printing it out,but i just cant proofread it on the screen( i will re-use the paper) but i have had to print out 106 pages to proofread for my tutor group(and that doesnt include music or activities or sport reports...egads..no wonder my eyes are all googly
...anyway come friday ..when i finish writing my tutor reports(subject ones done) and finish proofreading...i get to be normal jojo-well as normal as she is anyway
...and i even cooked stu dinner..well i made an attempt at spaghetti and meatballs...and we errr kinda worked out why it is that he usually cooks dinner...apparently he doesnt like pasta that is stuck toether...and didnt appreciate my extra special gift of a hair in his dinner.... lol.... only the lucky ones get that
..coupla wines and now its back to the slog
..oh and hte cptr is still completely DEAD...holy guacamole batman-that sucks the big one!!!!!! super stressd little pussycat this morning...anyway they managed to salvage my hard drive and put it into an old computer so im back on line...phew i was starting to get a bit shaky...like an addict... well it is the WORST week in the history of the weeks for me to NOT have a computer... lol ..maybe i AM just a tad prone to exaggerating...
rest day today ..thank goodness..cos the back is being a f7cking little brat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just know its cos i was contemplating jumping ont he squash court(dont tell SM though-he'll go crazy at me)

...oooooh

..miss jojo was feeling quite hungover today...and it kinda hurts to breathe which is a bit weird.... and i completely broke my computer(on the bf's) apparently it doesnt like coke syrup seeping into it in the middle of the night... its completely dead...not even light switches on..and whats even more f%$#d about that is im supposed to be checking report's tonight(and writing) and to do that i need my computer..cos i have a direct link through to school(like a tunnel and i cant get on from any computer..bugger bugger bugger) this is the worst week in the history of weeks for it to blow up
..anyway did i say i did a 45min run yesterday(it was strugglesville (yes again)) and then today when i woke up EXTREMELY hungover (went to the rugby with gf)
hey how funny is this... my gf and i were ina bar..and we took a chair from this guys table and then when he went to the toilet he asked us to mind the table..im looking at him going..i know him..brain ticks away..and im going to my friend...ask him if his name is wayne...no ...go on...poke poke..ask him if his name is wayne..she wouldnt do it..so im like are you wayne...yep..its the friend of stu i met once.... lol...(stu was back at their seats ) how funny is that!!!!! in a crowd of 50,000...lol.. dod laugh

..so got up and went for a very dehydrated water run.....where i shared the lanes with 2 very splashy mcsplash people..one dude seriously was shocking..he slapped hi hand down completely flat- it was quite incredible..and the other guy went crazy and thought a shark was after him he was swimming in such a frenzy...lol...
..any 84 mins of ummm yeah well i guess it gave me some much needed think time... am pretty stressed out at the moment
..i dont know how stu puts up with me...im grumplestiltskins,sooky la la and just an all round pain in the ass... oh well once reports are done on friday..i might go back to being amiable jo..who is not the most horrid person in the universe...mind i only said MIGHT :)

..errr who was that psycho

..errr who was that psycho who wrote my blog last night
..oh me... right
..that post doesnt even BEGIN to demonstrate what a foul mood i was in yesterday

..poor stu..had to put up with a monsyllabic,very rude little girl

..anyway...i cant do much about it now...
..still very grumpy but again ..i need to just suck it up and get on with it

..anyway been writing reports all day

..and apparently i am low in vitamin B.... and ummmmmm extremely LOW in vitamin D(which you get from sunlight) errrrr less than half of what its supposed to be... i guess stu's comment that i was as pale as a GOTH CHICK wasnt as far from the tree as i first thought
..anyway my doctor has the bedside manner of a bee... im not going into it but..this is the doc who basically said if i didnt look after my cellulitis(when i was refusing to take time off work) i could lose my leg or worst case ..die dont sugar coat it honey.. he said he was deficient in vit D too...and then started laughing and said not as bad as me though

..dinner with my brother and sister n law tonight... so i will see lots of photos of the girls..so there is bound to be tears from me(and i hate crying :( )

..still having a bad day today.i really dont like being an adult sometimes

the universe mocks me

..yep

..bad day

.sick of report writing

..majorly grumpy

...tired little leggies

..i sent my coach an email telling him i couldnt possibly do 800m repeats tongight..my legs were just 2 fatigued after the 84 mins yesterday... anyway went for a very very slow warm up..which felt terrible.my shins hurt..quads were tight..all terrible.. so just hung around for while on the seat hoping stu might forget i was there and not make me train....
..errr no such luck..but he did take it easy on me and we did bends and straights...slow bends and faster straights..for 30 mins... i was starting to get pretty damn tired though
..been writing reports all day,,,,am very very frazzled..... going out for dinner for a wine(and maybe a whine) lol

tough day for me today... but i finally bought stamps to send my gorgeous nieces some stickers... my brother is back from OS which makes me happy... now if my sister would just pack up and come home-then life would be grand...but THAT my friend is called fantasy land :(

... OMG the boy is trying to kill me

i VERY offically do NOT like my coach....
..he took me to teh you yangs for a killer run... it wont sound like much ..but OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and he wouldnt let me stop the garming when we walked up the horrible hilly part...so the average pace was 6:58min/kms
but let me say the hills were soooooo hard and i was breathing so hard just walking up.... i took MANY MANY walk breaks(cmon jojo just to teh next tree i would say) but i started running again pretty soon everytime....except foe when we actually went up this bit which i could barely manage to walk..
..oh yeah and stu pushed me over... well not physically but he did use his jedi mind powers and made me graze my left leg..i was going over a mound and lost my footing... no concerned..are you ok jojo???..just ...cmon hurry up .... youre ok...(i was still checking the blood(FORTUNATELY ONLY A VERY SMALL GRAZE) but it did sting nonetheless
..anyway..an absolute killer of a run.... 12ish tough kms(felt more like 15kms at least...and im not exaggerating)
then we went out to lunch and then shopping..i started to get soooo tired i couldnt formualte full sentences... lol ..and of course i was singing like an idiot when we bumped into a friend of stu..oops way to make a good impression...lol
gotta go have a nap
that lunatic of a bf...is going running again this arvo with his squad..he is craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzy
am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a long weekedn allllllllllllllllllllllllllright

..so with a long weekend ...ummmm some may have expected me to have been working reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly hard on my reports..... errrrrrrrrr i did clean stuff though... lol
vac'd my car(someone has been quite disgusted with how much mud etc there has been)

emptied the boot(which is now full as i did an exchange of all th crap i have at stus)

and we went bowling today with his 4 boys(+ gf) which was really quite fun.... my back didnt love it though so i was very glad i taped it... and also i went water running this morning (as i have done 46 kms since last sunday!!!!!) coach was not happy about water running option-i think he thought i was being slack but it truly WAS necessary..its been kinda a bad week with the back..well not a bad week..but well away from being a good week..one of the ldays i had the taping on even whilst i wanst running
i SUCK at bowling...lol...at least i got over 100 each time(shhhhhhh it may only have been just) at least i bowled less gutterballs than someone..... lol but he bowled more strikes/spares

and then shopping

errr well some shopping before hand.... AJH will laugh at this cos he doesnt understand..but i errrr accidentally bought a stereo
...i get a bit caught up in the moment sometimes..impulse buying was named after someone saw me shoping obviously.. im there buying this jaffle maker(been looking for one for at least 2 years that doesnt cut teh damn things in half(can fit more baked beans in...yum) anyway was very very excited..so excited i rang someone
..anyway im poaying for it..and the spruiker starts talking about this stereo that is reduced to 179 and then as its the last one has been reduced to $50 ...ummm i dont think i even looked at it but i DID buy it...LOL ..immmmmmmm soooooooo bad
..and ummmm so im trying rush to get to teh bowling alley and i have to carry HEAVY stuff a LONG LONG way to car...kept having to stop for a breather.. it was heavy going... and then after bowling...some more shopping,,,i bought 2 work pants, 2 tees.. oh and some 'how now brown cow trackies to lounge around in... lol and no thats not a brand name... it just means trackies that are brown..lol...gotta go..we ahafta decide what our dinner plans are!!!!!!!!!

...not too bad ..considering :(

Em, in particular knows how much i hate that phrase that i have just used in the title... the considering makes it sound like an excuse... but i think something i have to realise is that i have very high expectations of myself
///i haven't really acknowledged that its only been since May 9 that i was given the go ahead to start running again which is only a month ..and in all likelihood... what my body had to go through and try to recover from probably put my body under considerable stress.. so ITS probably not a surprise that IM NOT running as fast as i used to be able to ...lol.... but i do want to!!!!!!

anyway today was a handicap coburg race at heidelberg park on the dirt track(which is not a fast surface and most of the people ran slower km ratings than sandown which put mine into perspective as mine was actually faster)
anyway i started at 13:44 and jeremy started at 31 and CAUGHT me and passed me..what a gun!!!! anyway racing handicap is BIZARRO... no one to help pull you along...cos you peg someone back and then have to push...there is no settling like in a race where theres often someone racing the pace you want.... it WAS HARD HARD HARD.. i was feeling SHITE at about 3kms...lol..that wasnt a good sign.... in all seriousness too!im really not fit enough to run anything further than 5km.. anyway turn around at 4kms 19:08 and then i finish in 38:37 or 38:27 not quite sure.... anyway it means i ran 4:48min/kms which im pretty happy about..cos it was NOT a fast surface... i was scooting along(and 4:48 is not ridiculously fast(well it didnt used to be)) but it felt fast(i had NO faster)
..errr the last 4 kms was a slog and a half...as i said there was not any fitness
..lol and when i rang my coach..im like ..when will i be fit... an exasperated..JO not for another 4-8weeks..and something whiny from me i think followed by a line along the lines of ...suck it up ...lol that exactly what i need a coach for...to put it back into perspective for me
..so i guess.... considering ...(eeeeuuuugghghghgh) where im at...i ran pretty well

supposed to be writing reports...ummmm havent done any.... and meeting a friend for dinner..oops somebody needs to smack me
..long run either tomorrow or monday..but monday will muck up my other training on tues but would mean i had someone to run with
em,jay? where are you running tomorrow
blood tests this morning..i arrived at 7.55 am and i was 16th ..yes 16TH in the queue.holy guacamole batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..still stressing about the house thing... anyone wanna move out with a crazy runner chick... lol

...is it christmas???????????//

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i received my 3 pairs of shoes today from the US..saucony's, mizuno, and brooks adrenaline
see piccy below... very exciting

anyway today was a rest day from runnning...my little legs were quite fatigued from last nights session.
..i was like some slug this morning....really struggled when that alarm went off at stupi 5.45 am... i dont know how stu gets out of bed so easily..i bitch and moan...and huff and puff... and i think last night i was kinda sleep talking..... lol or so ive been told anyway!!!!

anyway a marking night tonight...am staying home..did i mention my flatmate is moving out cos he is going to WA and my other flatmate has mentioned she may move in with her bf... im feeling very stressed.. it may be time to let he house. go.... but it is a beautiful place and the rent is super cheap(you wouldnt believe how cheap for what it is) maybe it is time for me to move into a new place :(

..hmmm a little bit of a tough set

..well a few months ago i wouldnt have blinked at it..

all of the pacing was at 4:10m/k (or 100s laps) with teh following
800m,600m,400m,400,400,400,200m,200m,200m,200m,200m

teh 800s 600s 400s at correct pace.. then stu told us to progressively run faster fir the 200m they were done at 48s 45s 43s and 39s the 39 felt fast though..not flat chat though... considering how lousy i felt(it was TOM..and yes i write that so in 6 weeks time i roughly know when its due) it also explains my very crappy run yesterday(only 2 days i have any issues whatsoever)


so i ran with the little tackers..yep all under 14,,,,lol... but it was good... a couple of them were like...can i run next jo..which made me laugh...a couple of hte kidlets were too fast for me but were onlyunrestrained once.... im glad i was working with a group tonight though..no way could i have managed that set by myself tonight

better day at work...the exam i wrote is done..now i just have to put up with all the crap that goes with that.. lol ..did i mention i had to come run at hoppers again... when i packe up my 'goody bag' for running.... GUESS what key element miss jo forgot...... go on guess.... ummmmmmmm shoes are pretty essential... god i suck... no wonder stu told me i was the most non organised person he had EVER met..lol

okey dokey...i gotta go ciao bellas

..okerly dokerly

...hmmmm when did i last post??? went to dinner with Em and sara on monday which was great.. the dude who was serving was like..... its so great to see gals really enjoying themselves(maybe we were being loud...lol... me????loud...surely NOT!!! haha

anyway last night i went over to the hoppers track and trained with all young vegemites....lol... i much enjoyed it though(although i do seem to be a bossy britches...cant quite get my first 200m pacing right

supposed to be doing 2x1km + 4x800m with 2min recov at 110s/lap pace which is 4:35m/k pace
was pretty close at the end of the sets every time..one was 4 s too fast. one was 10s too fast..but the rest were good.. and then the last one we went a bit harder which was 14s too fast but stu kinda implied as long as we could maintain from 1st to second lap it would be ok

so including a 1.3km warm up, 800m cool down and a few strides, it was probably 7.5kms all up but this time training was much much better than last week

and then tonight...... it was supposed to be 45 mins easy....ie 5:30min.kms which has generally been accepted as my 'easy pace' well obviously that is prior to the injury...cos i f&king suck and was struggling(yes i couldnt believe it...STRUGGLING to maintain that pace.... i did maintain it because i am a stupid DOGGED person but it was not easy easy(wasnt super hard but well you get the idea)



and people at work are driving me nuts... one guy swore at me yesterday..not at me but whilst talking TO me in an aggressive manner..and then made a comment today as to ..i was still eating..i mean the guy has a bowling ball instead of a belly and made a comment to ME!!!!! im going to deck someone at this rate!!! it report writing time and exam correcting(i think i mentioned term 2 was a very stressful time... and for some reason i just dont cope well with stress........ i think its something to do with the fact i like to ostrich,,and i just cant at the mo



anyway..i made a nice healthy tortilla with capsicum,cucumber,lettuce,onion,tomato,tzaziki and chicken marinated in plum.... yum yum... and ive already chopped it into containers so i can have the same for lunch...EXCELLENTY





oooh oooh oooh(sorry its an esay) how cool is runningwharehouse.com my order is apparently in honolulu..i love that i can track it....

...well i made it

..oooh oooh before i forget...i need your assistance...what is a 6 letter girlsname begining with 'C' im out at carmel,

anyway..the 15kms today was ummmmmm how to put it so i dont sound like a whinger..ok this is what i would say...... ummmm done

so i made it but it hurt a lot- and at 4kms i was REALLY feeling it... it was very hilly(up and down) and i am not fit enough..i didnt race as such but i also dont think i couldve run much faster even if i had tried
anyway here are the splits./... not rounded...just truncated...lol
1. 5:09 6. 5:18 11. 5.26
2. 5.04 7. 5.11 12. 5:12
3. 5:12 8. 5.15 13. 5.25
4. 4:49 9. 5.09 14. 5:04
5. 5:05 10. 4:56 15. 4:49
so by my garmin 1.17.20 for 15km (5:09 ave) but it measured 100m extra so my actual recored time is about 30s more than that... pleased overall
..saw Em, sam, tony, and surprise surprise i did see stu there...lol

so after i had recovered -about 15mins later i started to feel a bit better. but in the actual race there was about 20 mins i enjoyed..my favourite part of running is always 40-60mins and this was my good part.. it also coincides with where i tacked on with two other people...who unfortunately were making me run the flats a bit too fast and a bit too slow on the hills..so i rested on the hills...lol
..anyway... im happy that i made it...i had grave doubts... initially i knew i had to finish as we had exactly 7 people (2 teams) but then one of our girls had to pull out...so i was thinking khmmmmmmm i dont really have to finihs now.... and then i did the count 1,2,3 d'oh im our 4th runnner(div1) and the other girl running for us is about 18 mins behind me....d'oh i really DO have to finish
..anyway as my coach would say ..kms in the bank

and yesterday i went to have a 40min nap and ended up napping for 3 hours...wow!!!!!!!!!!!! but then i have been under the weather this week

BUT there was NO lingering illness today AT all... the slow time is simply me being unfit ...absolutely nothing else..
..watching james bond..the 1962 version.. drool..a bit of sean ..lol